Cocaine under Examination...Again.

The future review seems to have a lingering bias around it, but we wont know till it is written. Chemical dependency counseling and addiction physiology have already shown the horrid dangers of cocaine in the 70's and 80's. It's obvious that no one is taking heed to the cocaine research and the use of it has been increasing in the UK. More on the story...

"Cocaine's reputation as a "safe drug" at middle-class dinner parties is to be examined by the Government's drugs advisers.

Professor Les Iversen said the year-long review will look at the harms posed by the growing popularity of cocaine, but added there are no plans to consider changing its illegal class A status.

The review follows concerns over a three-fold rise in the number of cocaine users over the last 10 years and "a popular misconception, at least as far as powder cocaine is concerned at middle-class dinner parties, (that) it's a safe drug", Prof Iversen said.

"We want to examine the drug pharmacology in detail and see whether or not powder cocaine really is safe," he said. "I don't believe it."

David Liddell, who will lead the review for the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), said it would look at who uses cocaine, how often they take it and what other drugs they are using at the same time.

"Not just the overall numbers using cocaine, but more precisely how they're using it," he said.

"We will be looking at the nature of the trade and we will make specific recommendations regarding improvements that we feel are necessary in terms of the response to cocaine," he said.

Mr Liddell, of the Scottish Drugs Forum, added the review would also look at the physical, psychological and social harms of cocaine and is expected to report in spring next year.

Last month, the United Nations warned that the UK is becoming an increasingly important hub for the importation of cocaine into the rest of Europe.

Belgium, Holland, Portugal and Spain are the traditional routes for the drug's entry to the EU, but the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said there had been a recent surge in cases of the UK being used as point of entry."

UKPA
April 12, 2011

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